Connect Microsoft Project Desktop with edison365 for Powerful Enterprise PPM

With Microsoft retiring Project Online, many organizations are reviewing how they manage projects, portfolios, and resources across their business.

But Microsoft Project Desktop isn’t going anywhere. Thousands of project professionals still rely on it for building and managing complex project schedules.

Built for detailed planning, Microsoft Project Desktop continues to play a vital role in project delivery for enterprises worldwide.

The challenge is that project schedules are only one piece of the project puzzle. Microsoft Project alone cannot support the governance, reporting, resource management, and portfolio visibility. Capabilities many modern enterprise organizations require.

With the new edison365 Microsoft Project Connector, organizations can continue using Microsoft Project Desktop while bringing all project data into a powerful end-to-end PPM environment.

What is edison365?

edison365 is an end-to-end solution for enterprise project portfolio management, innovation management, resource planning, reporting, and strategic delivery. Built on the Microsoft ecosystem, it gives teams the visibility and control needed to manage projects, portfolios, and transformation initiatives in one place.

Want to learn more? Find out why organizations choose edison365 or book a demo with one of our friendly experts to see our tools in action.

Why Microsoft Project Desktop Isn’t Going Anywhere

For decades, Microsoft Project Desktop has been the planning tool of choice for project managers. It offers the speed, flexibility, and enterprise control to build and maintain large project schedules across industries and departments.

While cloud-based project management tools have become popular, many organizations still depend on Microsoft Project Desktop to manage large project schedules, tasks, and dependencies.

Rather than forcing organizations to abandon the tools and processes they know and trust, the edison365 Microsoft Project Connector allows teams to continue working with Project Desktop while benefiting from enterprise-wide visibility, governance, and portfolio management.

What Does the Microsoft Project Desktop Connector do? 

The edison365 Microsoft Project Connector creates a bi-directional connection between Microsoft Project Desktop and edison365, allowing organizations to sync detailed project schedules with a broader enterprise PPM solution. 

This allows project managers to continue building and maintaining schedules in Microsoft Project Desktop while keeping their data synchronized with edison365. Changes can be made in either environment, creating a connected, single source of truth with accurate and aligned data. 

Unlike traditional data imports, the Connector is designed to support continuous synchronization between Microsoft Project Desktop and edison365. Project managers then gain the freedom to work in their preferred environment, while PMOs and business leaders gain access to the latest project information through powerful dashboards, reports, workflows, and portfolio views. 

In short, the Connector combines the powerful scheduling capabilities of Microsoft Project Desktop with the enterprise-grade governance, reporting, and portfolio management features of edison365. 

Benefits of Connecting Microsoft Project Desktop with edison365 

The true value of the Connector isn’t just syncing schedules; it’s helping organizations centralize data, enhance visibility, strengthen governance, and align project planning with portfolio management. 

No More Isolated Project Files 

Projects typically exist as single files in Microsoft Project, limiting portfolio-level visibility and organization-wide reporting for teams. 

By connecting Microsoft Project with edison365, project data can be centralized, eliminating isolated schedules and creating a single source of truth for project data, reporting, and decision-making.  

This allows organizations to move from managing siloed projects to confidently driving entire portfolios. 

Unlock Enterprise Resource Management 

Successful project delivery relies on understanding your organization’s resource capacity and utilization across entire portfolios. 

Users in Microsoft Project can access the edison365 central resource pool ensuring resource assignments join a wider enterprise environment, providing centralized visibility into utilization, capacity, and workloads across multiple projects.  

This helps organizations make smarter resource decisions, balance workloads, and identify bottlenecks earlier. 

Add Enterprise Governance to Every Schedule 

Microsoft Project Desktop excels at scheduling, but projects require far more than just plans and timelines to hit major goals and objectives. 

Through the Microsoft Project Connector, edison365 helps organizations manage risks, issues, change requests, benefits, approvals, workflows, and executive reporting alongside those existing project schedules.  

The result is an environment where schedules, governance, and reporting work together in one place. 

Who is the Microsoft Project Connector For?

The edison365 Microsoft Project Connector is designed for organizations that want to continue working within Microsoft Project without sacrificing the visibility, governance, and reporting needed to deliver projects, portfolios, and other transformation initiatives.

• The Microsoft Project Connector is best suited for:
• Organizations preparing for the retirement of Project Online.
• Teams already using Microsoft Project Desktop.
• PMOs seeking greater visibility and reporting outside of Project Desktop.
• Resource managers looking to improve company-wide capacity planning.
• Organizations wanting to combine project schedules with workflows, governance, and executive-level reporting.

Connecting Microsoft Project Desktop with edison365 helps teams to keep using the planning tools they know and trust while gaining the control, visibility, and insight to manage large-scale PPM initiatives.

Ready to Extend Microsoft Project Desktop with edison365?

The edison365 Microsoft Project Connector gives organizations enterprise-wide governance, reporting, resource management, and portfolio visibility while extending their existing Microsoft investment.

Book a demo with our friendly experts to discover how edison365 can support end-to-end business transformation and enterprise PPM delivery, or enjoy a free trial.